List of Complutense University of Madrid alumni

This list of Complutense University of Madrid alumni includes notable graduates of Complutense University of Madrid

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Government

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Pre–20th century

Don John of Austria – Victor of the Battle of Lepanto, Spanish Governor of the Netherlands, Grandee of Spain, the last Knight of Europe.
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza.
Cardinal Mazarin – 2nd Prime Minister of France (1642–1661), successor of Cardinal Richelieu.
Gaspar de Borja y Velasco – Served as Primate of Spain, Archbishop of Seville, Archbishop of Toledo and viceroy of Naples.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos – Prime Minister of Spain, theorist behind the Constitution of 1812
Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso – President of the First Spanish Republic
Emilio Castelar y Ripoll – Journalist, Essayist, Minister during the First Spanish Republic

II Spanish Republic

Manuel Azaña – Head of State & President of Spain at various points throughout the Second Spanish Republic
Juan Negrín López – Last President of the Second Spanish Republic
Gregorio Marañón – Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer, philosopher and political reformer
Julián Besteiro Fernández – Socialist Politician, Deputy during the Second Spanish Republic
Clara Campoamor – Feminist Politician, Deputy during the Second Spanish Republic
Victoria Kent – Essayist, Feminist, Deputy during the Second Spanish Republic
Claudio Sánchez–Albornoz y Menduiña – Historian, Deputy during the Second Spanish Republic
Fernando de los Ríos Urruti – Anarquist Politician during the Second Spanish Republic

Transition and Contemporary Administrations

Adolfo Suárez – first democratically elected Prime Minister after the Franco regime
Américo Castro – Politician, Spanish cultural historian, philologist, and literary critic
José María Aznar – Former President of the Spanish Government (1996–2004)
Javier Solana – European Union foreign policy chief and former NATO Secretary General
Esperanza Aguirre – Former regional President of Madrid
Enrique Barón Crespo – President of the European Parliament
Manuel Fraga Iribarne – Former interior minister/father of the Spanish Constitution of 1978/founder and president of the Spanish conservative People's Party/former president of the Xunta de Galicia/member of the Spanish Senate
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega – Former vice president of the Spanish Government (2004–)
Marcelino Oreja Aguirre – Secretary General of the Council of Europe/Member of the European Parliament /European Commissioner for Transport/European Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication Strategy
Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal – Spanish diplomat/Politician/Royal Senator/Administrator of the Royal Household

Rodrigo Rato – Politician/former Spanish Minister of Economy and Finance/9th Chairman of the International Monetary Fund
Josep Borrell – former president of the European Parliament
Manuel Marín – former member of the European Commission and President during the interim Santer Commission/President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
José Bono – former president of Castile–La Mancha, former Defense Minister, former president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Ana Palacio – former Spanish minister of foreign affairs
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba – Chemist/ former minister of the Ministry of Education (Spain), former Defense Minister, former minister of the Spanish Interior Minister
Elena Salgado – former Spanish Minister of Economy and Finance
German Vargas Lleras – former Ministry of the Interior and Justice (Colombia)
José María Barreda – former president of Castile–La Mancha
José Manuel González Paramo – former member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank
Isabel Díaz Ayuso – Politician and president of the Community of Madrid
Juan Pizarro Navarrete – former deputy and former member of the Parliament of Andalusia
Sara Aagesen – current Secretary of State for Energy
Teresa Ribera – current Minister for the Ecological Transition of Spain

Foreign Government Figures

Luis J. Lauredo – former United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States and executive director of the First Summit of the Americas
Mario Crisostomo Belisario – former Philippine Ambassador to Romania, Hungary, Consul, and Assistant Secretary of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs
Manuel Sarmiento Enverga- former Congressman of the First District of Quezon Province, lawyer, academic, and founder of Enverga University, finished Doctor of Civil Law.

Royalty

Infanta Cristina of Spain – Spanish princess, the younger daughter of King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía of Spain.
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano – Queen consort of Spain
Miriam, Princess of Turnovo – Spanish jewellery designer and member of the Bulgarian royal family

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Journalism and literature

Antonio de Nebrija – writer, grammarian
Antonio Machado – poet, member of the Generación del '98 literary movement
Basilio Rodríguez Cañada – writer, president of the PEN Club of Spain
Camilo José Cela – writer, poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1989), Miguel de Cervantes Prize Recipient, member of the Generación del '50 literary movement
Carmen Camacho (writer) - writer, columnist
Concepción Arenal – journalist, essayist, political figure
Dámaso Alonso y Fernández de las Redondas – writer, poet, philologist, member of the Generación del '27 literary movement, Miguel de Cervantes Prize Recipient
Enrique Tierno Galván – writer, politician
Elísabet Benavent – romance writer
Federico García Lorca – poet, playwright
Paloma García Ovejero – journalist, news broadcaster, first woman vice director of the Holy See Press Office
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio – Spanish playwright
Fermín Caballero – early journalist / publisher, Congressional Deputy

Francisco Ayala – writer, Nobel Prize for Literature Candidate, Principe de Asturias Award for Literature, Miguel de Cervantes Prize Recipient
Francisco de Quevedo – classical writer
Gerardo Diego – writer, poet, Member of the Spanish Royal Academy, Member of the Generación del '27 literary movement, Miguel de Cervantes Prize Recipient
Giannina Braschi – author of Empire of Dreams, Yo–Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana
Jacinto Benavente – playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature (1922)
Javier Marías – writer, translator, member of the Spanish Royal Academy
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre – writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1904)
José Rodríguez Carracido – writer, pharmacist, chemist
Mar Abad – Spanish journalist, writer, businesswoman
María Zambrano – writer, philosopher
Mario Vargas Llosa – Peruvian writer (naturalized Spaniard), Principe de Asturias Award, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature (2010)
Mercedes Gallego – journalist and author^[1]
Miguel de Unamuno – writer, member of the Generación del '98 literary movement, Neo–Humanist Philosopher
Mónica Martínez, journalist, television presenter^[2]
Pío Baroja – writer, member of the Generación del '98 literary movement
Ramiro Ledesma Ramos – writer, politician
Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez–Ossorio – journalist, founder of ABC
Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena – journalist, playwright, diplomat
Vicente Aleixandre – writer, poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1970)
Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín – writer
José Ortega Spottorno – journalist, founder of Alianza Editorial, co–founder of El País
Jesús de Polanco – journalist, co–founder of El País, founder of Editorial Santillana, Grupo PRISA and Cadena SER
Juan Luis Cebrián – journalist, co–founder and former editor–in–chief of El País, member of the Real Academia Española, head of Grupo PRISA
Ribhi Kamal, Palestinian writer, teacher, and radio broadcaster.

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Philosophy

Antonio de Nebrija – Renaissance Humanist, Philologist
Domingo de Soto – Philosopher, Theologian, Theorist at the Council of Trent
Fernando Savater – Philosopher
José Gaos y González Pola – Neo–Humanist Philosopher
Jose Luis López Aranguren – Philosopher
José Ortega y Gasset – Neo–Humanist Philosopher, Founder of Ratio–Vitalism, Writer, Journalist, Deputy during the Second Spanish Republic
Julián Marías – Philosopher
Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola – Philosopher, Law Theorist, Political Theorist
María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda – First woman to earn a doctorate in Spain, Philosopher
Raimon Panikkar – Philosopher, Theologian, Scholar of Comparative Philosophy of Religion
Tomás de Villanueva – Roman Catholic Saint, Archbishop of Valencia, Theologian
Xavier Zubiri Apalategui – Philosopher, Philologist
María Zambrano – Philosopher